THE
CRAFT OF WRITING TV DRAMA
"This is without question the best
course on screenwriting I have ever taken and I strongly recommend
it to any writer wishing to focus on television drama."
Emilia di Girolamo,
previous participant
This course, supported by Skillset's
Freelance Training Fund, provides an opportunity for six writers
to take part in a series of practical workshops to learn and then
apply the range of techniques used by writers, producers and script
editors when developing successful television drama. During the
course each participant writes a 50-minute episode of an original
drama series with support and feedback from the tutor Philip Palmer,
an experienced writer and script editor.
Eight workshop days are spread over a period of six months. Writers
are expected to meet deadlines for treatments, storylines and
drafts between sessions. At various points during the course,
guest television drama executives, currently involved in developing
new work, read the work in progress and provide constructive feedback.
The 2007 course is now complete. The six writers who took part
were:
Episode One: Ann
Clifford
Episode Two: Carol
Russell
Episode Three: Stephen Mollett
Episode Four: Louise Pennington
Episode Five: Sarah Swords
Episode Six: Kate Munson
For more information about the
course, you can download the guidelines below.
Course
Details and Guidelines (pdf)
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